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Series 2: Photographs, circa 1850-1906

Extent

0.84 Linear Feet in two manuscript boxes.

Scope and Contents

This series contains two albums of cabinet card and postcard photographs depicting certain members of the Booth family, including Phoebe and Lila Booth, as well as their husbands, Hiram K. Lockwood and Samuel S. Carrington. Additional photographs in the albums depict several members of families related to the Booth family by marriage, including the Lockwood, Carrington, Seward, Slauter, King, Mott, Shepard, and Squires families. Occasional loose photographs are interfiled throughout the albums, as are envelopes containing supplementary items, such as the obituary of Lila Booth Carrington. The versos of postcard photographs often contain greetings to their family addressees.

The series also includes three folders of additional cabinet cards, tintypes, and prints depicting members of the Booth family, including Charles Stuart, Lavinia, Phoebe, Lila, and Horace, as well as several members of allied families.

Many photographs in this series bear inscriptions from Harry B. Squires, the donor of this collection, in which he identifies the individuals pictured.

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